Able to flume twitter feeds in the sandbox after spending lot of time. Following steps helped in resolving this: 1. Added below entry in /etc/hosts file 199.59.148.138 stream.twitter.com 2. updating datetime in sandbox sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com 3. Adjusting hdfs path to point to 8020 port TwitterAgent.sinks.HDFS.hdfs.path=hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/user/maria_dev/tweets/%Y/%m/%d/%H/ ... View more